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WITNESSES, 1.7V VENTOR Zia/67L ye'wzz I M I I Attorney IINITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JOHN B. DENNIS, OF OT'IUMWA, IOWVA.

BANK-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,317, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed February 21, 1888. Serial No. 264,764. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,-JOHN B. DENNIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ottumwa, county of YVapello, Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bank-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bank-registers; and it consists, substantially, in such features thereof as will hereinafter be more particularly described.

In former Letters Patent granted me on the 27th day of December, 1887, No. 375,609, I have set forth certain improvements in this class of inventions for the purpose of facilitating the rapid finding and checking off from the register the drafts bearing corresponding names and numbers; but I have found that while the invention covered by the Letters Patent aforesaid possesses many valuable features as compared with prior inventions on the 1 subject it is yet somewhat awkward, in first having to turn to a page by reference to a number at the sides for obtaining the thousands, and again turn a page by reference to a number at'the top to obtain the hundreds of the number sought; and the purpose of the present invention'is to obviate the faults of the first invention by resorting to such devices as will hereinafter be more clearly set forth.

In the former Letters Patent referred to ten leaves are required for each thousand numbers, there being fifty numbers .on a page, these leaves being cut in index form and having printed or stamped on the tabs formed by such cutting the thousands of the numbers; also the individual leaves of each set of thousands are cut in like manner at the top or bottom, (preferably the top,) and have on the tabs thus formed the hundreds of the numbers. The numerals constituting both the hundreds and thousands of the numbers are arranged on each opposite page at the top and sides, respectively, so as to enable a number to .be found, whether the register be opened from the back or front.

In the present invention, instead of cutting the leaves both at the sides and the top or bottom, (as may be preferred,) I out each ten leaves (which represent'a thousand numbers) at the side edges to form tabs for the thousands of the numbers, and also at the sides I out each individual leaf of the ten in successive order, so as to form tabs for the numerals expressing the several hundreds. The cutting of each ten leaves is also necessarily greater or less, accordingly as they may be cut from the top downward, or vice versa, so that the several thousands may be quickly read or referred to either front or back, as it will be understood may be done in this invention as well as my former one, all as will more fully hereinafter appear when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view of my improved register, showing the same opened from one side; and Fig. 2 is a similar view thereof as when opened from the opposite side.

In the drawings, A represents myimproved I register, the same being shown as beginning with 340,000 and ending with 4,999, as it is to be understood that on each double page there is supposed to be a hundred numbers, (fifty on a page.) The numerals indicating the thousands are placed on the tab of the first page of the ten of a particular thousand in question, and the numerals expressing the quantity of hundreds of the numbers are placed numerically on the successively cut individual pages, this arrangement being had both at the top downwardly at the front of the register and from the bottom upwardly at the rear, or vice versa, so as to enable a reading from either side. Suppose, for instance, that it is the wish to refer to number 342,320. All that is necessary to do is to simply open the register at the place indicated by the thousands of the number 342, and then turn to the page indicated by the numeral 3, expressing the quantity of the hundreds of r the number, and the number will be quickly found, and which will be a short distance down the left-hand page.

While I have herein shown and described the leaves of the register as being themselves cut, it will be understood that instead of this I may employ two sets of tabs (one for the thousands and the other for the hundreds of the numbers,) without cutting the leaves, or I may resort to a combination of both tabs and cut leaves, the thousands appearing on the tabs and the hundreds on the leaves where cut.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bank-register containing a hundred numbers on'eaeh double page, having each ten of the numbers, and also haviugtheindividuel leaves out at the sides in successive order,with leaf of each set cut at the sides reversely in r 5 I numerals thereon indicatingsuccessively the like manner, with numeralsthereon indicating thousands of the numbers, and also having the successively the quantity of hundreds ofthe i e 5 individual leaf of each set eutat the sides, and numbers, substantially as described.

numerals thereon expressing successively the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my quantity of hundreds of the numbers, substan hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 20 iiially as described. r r r r nesses. 2. A. bank-register containing a hundred 10 numbers on each double page, haviugeaeh ten I I leaves out at the side edges in successive order Witnesses:

reverselyat the front and back, with numerals S. A. SPILMAN, thereon successively indicating the thousands v I (We. M.i\IeET;ROY.

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